(UN News)* — Ongoing attacks and airstrikes attributed to Israeli forces in Gaza continue to kill and maim people of all ages in the shattered enclave despite an agreed ceasefire, UN agencies said on Friday [].
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21/11/2025
West Bank: Israel Emptying Refugee Camps a Crime Against Humanity
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By Human Rights Watch*
Tens of Thousands of Palestinians Forcibly Displaced in Early 2025 Denied Return
(Jerusalem) – The Israeli government’s forced displacement of the populations of three West Bank refugee camps in January and February 2025 amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on 20 November 2025.
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21/11/2025
Security Council’s Veto Power Is ‘Poster Child’ of Global Gridlock: UN General Assembly President
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(UN News)* — General Assembly President Annalena Baerbock warned on Thursday [] that repeated deadlock in the Security Council has become the “poster child” for wider global gridlock, undermining trust in multilateral institutions.
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20/11/2025
Artificial Intelligence Has an Environmental Problem. Here’s What the World Can Do about That
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By the UN Environment Programme*
When the United Nations Environment Assembly convenes in December, a key topic up for discussion will be the mounting environmental impact of artificial intelligence. Ahead of those talks, here’s a look back a story first published on 21 September 2024.
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20/11/2025
Top Syria Envoy: Humanitarian Conditions Are “Extremely Serious”
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(UN News)* — Nearly a year on from the fall of Assad, Syrians still lack many basic necessities as the transitional government works to shore up the economy and build social cohesion.
Humanitarian conditions are “extremely serious,” UN Deputy Special Envoy for Syria Najat Rochdi told the Security Council on Wednesday [].
There are over 16 million people in need of aid with hundreds of thousands displaced, according to the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA).
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20/11/2025
Ending Violence against Women ‘a Matter of Dignity, Equality and Human Rights’
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(UN News)* — When Salma* was just 15, she was forced to get married, even though she wanted to stay in school and become a doctor someday.
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19/11/2025
Ending World Hunger Costs Less than 1% of Military Spending
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(UN News)* — Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
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19/11/2025
Terrorism in Africa, a ‘Growing Global Threat’
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(UN News)* — Expanding terrorist networks, mass displacement and the collapse of essential services in West Africa and the Sahel are a growing concern worldwide.
That’s according to the UN Secretary-General António Guterres who told the Security Council on Monday that the growth in terrorist groups was “not only a regional dramatic reality.”
“Progressive links of its groups in Africa and beyond make it a growing global threat.”
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19/11/2025
“Regime Change” in Venezuela Is Euphemism for U.S.-inflicted Carnage and Chaos
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By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service*
For decades, Washington has sold the world a deadly lie: that “regime change” brings freedom, that U.S. bombs and blockades can somehow deliver democracy. But every country that has lived through this euphemism knows the truth—it instead brings death, dismemberment, and despair.
A United Socialist Party rally in Caracas, 3 Aug 2024. Photo: Morning Star
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